Wednesday, September 5, 2018

September 7-9 Weekend Preview



The Blue Jays are ready to begin a fall season of fun, excitement, and transition!  Games will feature the final go-round in coach-pitch.  Practices will be about preparation for the move to machine-pitch in 2019.

We'll get started this weekend with a machine-pitch practice on Friday and a coach-pitch game with the Rockies on Sunday - weather permitting, as always!


Practice

Friday, September 7
Avenel Local Park
5:30 until 7:00 p.m.


Practice Plan

5:30 - Getting Ready
  • Throw-and-catch 30, 40, 50, 60 feet
5:45 - Machine Pitch Basics
  • Explain field and position changes
  • Covering 2B - it's automatic!
  • "Dead ball" rule on hits to outfield
6:00 - Machine Pitch Scrimmage
  • Modified - no kid catcher (soon!)
  • 3 strikes, you're out; 6-pitch max
  • Half inning = either 3 outs or 5 runs
  • Keep score each inning
  • Base coaches - keep the runners going
  • T1 - Adam, Brody, Evan, Jacob, Josh, Niara, Peter
  • T2 - Clark, Dominic, Henry, Milen, Noah, Sebastian
7:00 - Uniform Distribution


Uniform Numbers

1 Jacob
2 Clark
3 Noah
4 Brody
5 Dominic
6 Evan
7 Henry
8 Sebastian
9 Peter
10 Niara
11 Milen
12 Adam
13 Josh


Game

Sunday, September 9
Blue Jays vs. Rockies (Weinstein)
Grosvenor Center field #2 (north)
Pregame BP 12:00 noon
Game time 12:30 p.m.


Let's have fun, enjoy our final season of coach-pitch, and learn lots of new stuff that we will use in machine-pitch!

Coach Steve

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